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When did you start regularly posting to ILM?

(Please don't feel you have to comment on this - I'll bump it occasionally if it falls off the bottom. Not interested in individuals, old v new etc. just want to get a feel for the shape of the uptake curve)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
2003	37
2001	29
2002	26
2004	25
2005	25
2006	24
2000	17
2007	5

― Groke, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I put in 2004, though it was right at the end of 2004.

― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

i have trouble remembering!

03? I think?

― gff, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

2000, good grief.

― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

discovered in 2000, really started posting in 01. u_u

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Same as jess I think. tended to lurk mostly though. So I can't really claim to be an old poster can I.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair, i'm not sure ive ever been a *regular* poster. More a *periodic* one. Maybe I shouldn't have voted...

― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Same as Billy Pilgrim

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is a depressing poll.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

2006. I'm a newbie.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I should have put "posting regularly (or reading regularly if you don't post regularly)".

― Groke, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

gosh, 03, i think

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I posted in early 2002, where some of you guys tried to get me on to a WHO thread...

...But then someone decided to turn it into a f***ing Dr. WHO thread.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

But to answer the question, 2003, I think.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

2004, and y'all *really* helped me mend a broken heart.

― Tantrum The Cat, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

december 02?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

i lurked for a year or so

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

i emailed s reyn01ds and asked for reading recommendations about dance music and he sent me to ILM

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

LOL thank god dissensus hadn't been invented yet

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

pretty sure i discovered ilm through simon's links. that or josh's.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

2000 for me. I'd just started reading NYLPM-- maybe Indieshite.co.uk linked to it? -- and got here from there.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i was on a road trip in triple-A in a hotel room. i lurked for awhile while still in the minors.

― félix pié, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Lurked briefly around 2000 (got to it from NYLPM which I got to from I Hate Music) started posting around early 2002 when half the night shift at my old job got laid off and it was just me from midnight to 6am.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was living in Greensboro, North Carolina when I started reading it. I was just thinking about this the other day. I worked in an office that didn't have an internet connection (yes, I worked in an office that didn't have an internet connection, that's how long ago it was) so at lunch I would often walk a block to the public library to browse ILM and post.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

2002 ;_;

― jaxon, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

2002 i think but i was lurking quite a bit in 2001.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

came here in '01, I think it was reccomended to me by Darren/LeCoq/Ramosi, who I knew from some weird unofficial Pitchfork message board that was around back when I wrote for PF. made my first posts that summer/fall but didn't really start posting regularly until maybe early '03.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I forget.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I found the place because I was discussing music critics with some other guys on a metal board, and someone told me that a lot of writers that I really admired post here. I read over the entire 2006 metal thread, decided it was really cool, jumped right in, and have been getting my ass kicked ever since.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

i started arguing with ned ragget in fall '03

― deej, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

February 2003.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

almost exactly a year ago, actually.

― max, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

My God, I've been here since forever.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is my first post here.

― tabletopjoe, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

'05 WHUT!

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

first post technically 2002 but registered etc 2003

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

i've got to be earlier than 03, cos i remember "being" here before alot of you were! sad!

i felt pretty new and pretty stupid for a good long while, tho

― gff, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

My God, I've been here since forever.

If there were were an ilx Mount Rushmore, your face would be carved on it.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

2005. can I stay?

― Edward III, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

discovered it in late 2000 or so through freaky trigger. first posted 2001 but only sporadically since then. (too time consuming!)

― ryan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

february 2006, cause i remember making the horrible mistake of saying OMG I DOWNLOADED THE NEW TVOTR ALBUM AND ITS SO GOOOOOOOD and being collectively bitchslapped as a random googler talking about a less than loved ILM band. have since learned my folly. though i still like TVOTR. heh.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

July 2001 I think - I think I got in a fite with Momus on my first ever thread.

Keith, please make a GRAPH option for poll threads in future okthxbye.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah... You forgot to mention that I should DO IT IMMEDIATELY.

Well, not a graph, but check here, in the next two hours, for the current ILX stats:

http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/StatsControllerServlet

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

In two hours' time, they'll be replaced with sandbox stats. Just a vestige of my development environment for now, so check them while they still exist.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

No of monthly ILX posts:

2001/7 26383
2001/8 24165
2001/9 21555
2001/10 26840
2001/11 29472
2001/12 22900
2002/1 27613
2002/2 23864
2002/3 26165
2002/4 27085
2002/5 30480
2002/6 29258
2002/7 26915
2002/8 26525
2002/9 37369
2002/10 50243

What the hell happened in Q3 2002?

― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

HEN FAPOCALYSPE

― Edward III, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Top Posters So Far This Month
Keith 632
Keith not admin 27
Anonymous 1

Keith - are you using the sandbox to have conversations with yourself or something?

― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

release of 'work it'?

xpost

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

x-post I don't know, but FWIW, new ILX usage went up by 25% last week.

I'm not using the sandbox, but I am using my own computer to have conversations with myself. I am always right in them; just like everyone else in real ILX. It's just a copy from my computer. It'll get overwritten in a couple of hours with the real stats from today's sandbox.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

new poll idea:

when did ilx start to suck

before you delurked
when you delurked
long after you delurked

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

mid to late 2005

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Late 2005. Didn't post 'til 2006. Didn't get used to the fact that people kept changing their names ever.

― jim, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Spring of 2003. Found here's where several of the people from the now spam-occupied ama had started posting so I started posting right away.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Started lurking around April last year when The Goog brought me to (what is now) Platonic ILM Rap Bullshit Thread. Started posting about a month after that.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

arrived via dj martian's extensive linkblog cannot remember when exactly or even vaguely

― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

ILX really exploded in late 2002, it sort of felt like the board doubled in size over that time.

I heart new Statscock but I'm not 100% sure it's right - surely Kate should be like #2 or #3 in the all-time posting charts?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also if you conflate N. and Alba that puts the boy in third place.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

2002.

― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was feeling bad enough about "Dan Perry" but then I saw "The Ghost of Dan Perry" and my heart really sank.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I heart new Statscock but I'm not 100% sure it's right - surely Kate should be like #2 or #3 in the all-time posting charts?

Matt, I'm comfortable it's right... I think Kate's problem as far as the stats are concerned is that she changes her name all the time.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

-- C-rtis St-ph-ns, Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:46 (4 years ago)

I was 14!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Been very sporadically posting since a night of summer '05 tour ended up finding us and our tourmates in a weird standoff/blowout with the finer citizens and showgoers of Dekalb, Illinois. One Amazon customer review later and the "Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice in being total jerks with psychological problems flap" thread was rolling and providing their van and ours with much to discuss for the rest of the trip. Lurking ever since.

― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Keith - ah right, it's logged by display name instead of username?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shouldn't there be an "I don't like ILM" option?

― ablaeser, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

2002/10 50243

What the hell happened in Q3 2002?

I came here in October, but that certainly wasn't it. Perhaps an increased Google presence, or something.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also if you conflate N. and Alba that puts the boy in third place.

Never conflate.

― Alba, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when Geir came and Tom had to post that he wasn't a troll and that he knew him from somewhere else. I can still hear Ned banging his head off the table!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Funny. I used to be on AMA, and so did Ned, but never heard of Geir. But this was a long time ago.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

You were??????? (I was deX!)

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think I stopped about 1994.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. I didn't really start until 1996.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Aww! We missed each other!

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think I stopped about 1994.

The first time I was even online on the Net was in October/November 1995 :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Missed you too then!

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people hate Geir so much? I mean, I tend not to agree with him, and he certainly seems to be very set in his opinions, but he doesn't seem THAT bad.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't. I like him!

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind Geir at all. I admire they way he puts up with some nasty shit thrown at him. Of course sometimes he does say stuff I disagree with.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff I think it is the arrogance, narrow-minded/closed-mindedness, ignorance about other genres/cultures, monotony (of expressing the same opinions over and over again as if nobody couldn't guess) and general lack of interest in other people's opinions or actually asking questions (who likes a 'knowitall'?). On the plus side, not a racist Nazi really.

― blueski, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think the funniest thing about the heat Geir attracts is how EASY it is for him to do it; it's almost like he has instant provocation down to an exact science and, on a certain level, I just have to sit back and marvel.

Also I find it entertaining watching people have the exact same fights I used to have with him 10 years ago.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

He doesn't ram it down others' throats, though. It's just his opinion...

x-post

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Plus he's never rude to others.

― Keith, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Geir is ultra-polite. You just have to realise that he WONT change his mind ever and no amount of abuse will make any difference to him.

It would be nice if he did listen to people though sometimes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

It would be good however, if Geir was actually sitting there , Bond enemy style , with a rabbit in his lap thinking "mwhahahahahaha here's something I can say to wind them all up!". Then sits back laughing at all the abuse.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost: actually I think he does!) In fairness, sometimes he does ram it down people's throats and he rarely presents his opinions as opinion. However, I don't think he'd be Geir if he didn't post the way he does.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

December of 2003, discovered it from a year-in-review music blog post I believe. In hindsight I remember reading the original Kompakt thread from a google search in 2002.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

I started posting on ILM in the balmy, carefree (err...not quite) days of 2001, when some fatuous, hooting forest gibbon made some entirely disreputable and unfounded remarks about Killing Joke, a band from whose boots the collective of ILX are not worthy of licking.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've agreed with something Geir's posted twice in 3+ years. But I gotta hand it to him, he doesn't get baited into anger.

I started in 2004 and it was the great, great "Rough Guide to..." threads that drew me in. I wonder if any other ILXors started with those.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Geir is usually rather astute during those odd times when he isn't completely wrong to the point of self-parody.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

this Geir convo is hilarious. i've always found Geir to be a welcoming presence on ILM, strong "opinions" or not.

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

i mean if you think about it, stating your opinions as fact is kindof just a smart debate strategy. you don't wanna be all, "well i think" "it seems to me" "maybe"

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad I was not in the stats -- I was hoping against hope I wouldn't be, it would be thing that would just cap off one of the worst days possible.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

give it a few more years surmounter.

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

1 stick of deoderant
1 stick of butter
1 bag of m n m's

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait wrong thread

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

I started in summer '06 because I finally felt comfortable enough at my job to slack off during downtime

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

2000

― keythkeyth, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

pretty sure it was 2003, but I was lurking before that. found ilx through googling bands without much internet presence. remember when everyone was bitching about nu-ilx?

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, I think this is my fourth year. Lurked for a few months and then started saying halfassed shit left and right.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

you and everyone else!

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

i remember pitchfork threads from when pitchfork only liked indie rock!

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

new poll idea:

when did ilx start to suck

answer for nearly everyone = before you delurked

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Posted on the very first day. This will surprise nobody.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

ned you are an OG, verily. i don my hat to you kind sir.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

damn i was trying to do that old timey speak, but i drew a blank.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

back when I wrote for PF
-- Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:27 AM (5 hours ago)

links plz.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

2001

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

reading since 2002, posting since 2003, but never posting that much

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm inclined not to post a bunch of links to my own (shoddy early) work here, and anyway even now that I'm trying to search my own last name on PF I'm having trouble finding any of my 30 or so reviews, unless I search for the individual reviews by artist. they're all under the same name as everything else I've published, though, if that helps. (xpost)

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

So that's spelled D-i-C-r-e...

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

understandable. i have old things i wrote on a zip drive years ago that i am scared to look at. (xpost)

― artdamages, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

lol wizard's cap

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

First stumbled upon the site in the first week of '04 while searching for a Voice article of Xhuxk's; recognized several names I was familiar with (Scott Woods and other rockcritics.com regulars) and decided to stay. Lurked for can't-remember-how-long, anywhere from a few hours to a few days. I think my first post was on Ned's "The New Christy Minstrels...buh" thread.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

April 2001, comment about the NME on a music press thread, probably wouldn't have posted again if Carmody hadn't replied.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

2000 - shhhhiiit!

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Grozart who are you?!

― Groke, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's Fred S.

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

2001. You're still all insufferable cunts.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

When was "House of Jealous Lovers" a hit?

Then.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Grozart who are you?!

-- Groke, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:06 (37 minutes ago)

I'm a cunt. Don't worry about it.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK!

― Groke, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

"When was "House of Jealous Lovers" a hit?

Then.

-- Mark G, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:11 PM (35 minutes ago)"

it was never a hit!

not even top 40.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

2001

― Ronan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Earlyish 2003. I used to post enough to be in the stats, which seems completely inexplicable now

― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

it was never a hit!

not even top 40.

06/09/2003
The Rapture
House Of Jealous Lovers
27
{27}-52->2

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

which looks about right for mark i think.

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

everyhit doesn't list it...

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Blueski - have you just made that up? What does {27}-52->2 even mean?

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, it was a hit. In the looser sense. A HIT.

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

every(s)hit more like

alba why would you think i made it up?

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. To annoy enrique?

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

it was a internets hit no doubt.

xpost lol

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

i did it to be helpful to mark, of course! as enrique did when he went to everyhit to check, but then upon realising it was not there and that he had wasted his time allowed the indignation to flow forth.

real men use polyhex

― blueski, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

in at 27, dropped to 52 then out (a total of two weeks) is what it means, alba.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I came here in spring 2003. First posted on a Majesticons thread I think, which I found via Google.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I came as a random googler in 2002, unbelievably, and have lurked irregularly ever since, occasionally posting boring banal idiocy and invariably being completely ignored.

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

If grozart is Fred, dude when did you start using capital letters???

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

january 03!

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

lurked in 02, posted in 03, i think.

― c sharp major, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i THINK this is the first thread i started:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=10852

so, in 2002 i was around, but i probably started posting regularly in 2003. frank kogan was the one who tipped me off to ilx.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

April '01. I read my old posts and they're so earnest and eager it makes my scrotum clench w/embarrasment.

"x0x0x"

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I came here in spring 2003. First posted on a Majesticons thread I think, which I found via Google.

-- Tuomas, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:38 AM (4 hours ago)

this was my thread

http://www.anjelicasboudoir.com/WEBPAGE/pics/balloons/misc/sorry.jpg

― and what, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

2002, at a dreadful job in Sydney. It was something rude about A*Teens iirc.

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

late 2000, i guess - but maybe 2001 is when it started being somewhere i went to many times a day.

― toby, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Can it really be five years? Slightly more! I found I Love Music Christmas 2001 but for the life of me I can't remember what led me here. Nor can I find my way back.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

There we go - 2003 the banner year, 17 (of those who ticked) diehards from the early days, and a fairly steady stream of regulars ever since. Looks like the community's in good health, numbers-wise.

― Groke, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

We ought to have about 10 for this year so far though! Oh no!

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hm trying to remember whether I found ilm in 01 or 02... when was the greenspun exodus?

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

2001

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny, I read ILM in late 2000 (and as I said earlier didn't regularly read it til 2001 when it was still on Greenspun) but never even looked at ILE until 2003ish and never posted there til 2004/5 I think.

So Tom are you gonna do the same poll over on ILE then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha, there's been this theory for years that ILX is made up of the same 6 people talking among their alter egos... now we know it's not actually 6 people, but 17!

When can we get "where were you in 2002" badges made? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

my sister still usually refers to ilxors as `greenspun people'.

― toby, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

greenspun til i die

― Alan, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

most votes so far for a poll? i think it even beat the, gasp, Pavement one.

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

I found this through Melissa W's blog and first posted in January or February 2002.

― leigh, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I came in 2003, sucked in by two concurrent threads lambasting me (a Momus one and the epic "Is Everybody Who Writes for Pitchfork This Stupid"). Lived here ever since!

― Erroneous Botch, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, almost 200 people responded!

― HI DERE, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

How many are registered on nu-ilx?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

2001

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

2001

― Arthur, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

This represents a good example of a problem with polls. I have been a pretty fiercely poll-positive person thus far but this is the one that shows me that although poll results are always interesting, poll threads have the capability of housing very boring content. Why would anyone want to read an entire thread of posts from people saying what year they started posting on ILM?

― Bimble, Saturday, 28 April 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

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